 | August Neander - 1851 - 158 páginas
...the seed should spring and grow up he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear," (Mark iv. 20-28.) The word of the Lord warns us against this empty joy of "doing many and great... | |
 | Johann August W. Neander - 1851 - 168 páginas
...the seed should spring and grow up he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear," (Mark iv. 20-28.) The word of the Lord warns us against this empty joy of "doing many and great... | |
 | Thomas Taylor Castleman - 1851 - 448 páginas
...according as they have the means of grace and do their Christian duties. Remember the words of the text, " first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear." You go out every morning or evening, and watch the plants of your garden. You see every day that... | |
 | CATHERINE M. SEDGWICK - 1852 - 398 páginas
...am sure it will not lack the dews of Heaven ; and you, Mary, may live to see, though I shall not,' first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.'" Mary had seconded Mrs. Elton's efforts. She looked upon herself as an humble instrument; but... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 418 páginas
...Nature abounds in similitudes of it. The leaves first, then the blossom, and at length the fruit ; first, the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. It might have been inferred from Sacred Scripture itself, that the True Religion in all its comprehensive... | |
 | Paton James Gloag - 1853 - 136 páginas
...faith. The fruits of faith are not to be expected at once : " the earth bringeth forth fruit of itself ; first the blade, then the ear, and after that, the full corn in the ear ;" and therefore you ought, perhaps, for some time, to look more unto Christ for an increase of... | |
 | 1853 - 244 páginas
...serenity and peace, he " walked with God." 18 The spiritual life is progressive. In nature we have first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. In science, we have rays at first, dimmer than starlight, isolated facts, uncertain theories,... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1853 - 36 páginas
...it for ever with himself. His purpose of mercy had a methodic development — first the germ, then the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. He chose Abraham as the man through whom He would enter into relations with his descendants, the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1854 - 232 páginas
...been the history of that institution within whose walls we are now assembled ; that there has been, " first, the blade, then the ear, and after that, the full corn in the ear." Let all who are interested in its welfare, regard its unostentatious infancy and its gradual... | |
 | James Wallace Weir - 1854 - 334 páginas
...also bountifully. Let my Christian experience be like the fruit of the earth, which bringeth forth first the blade, then the ear, and after that, the full corn in the ear : and then, O Lord, when thy harvest is come, put in thy sickle, and gather me, as a shock of corn... | |
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Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. 
